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NEVv' ENGLAND FARMER. 



OcL 28, 



FOR THE KEW EKCLAND FAKMER. 



They shoulJ not lie such as oiighl to be liie ("airj increasing^ the amount ot purely ilomestick pro- 

 subjects of criticism, except witli respect to Uie j ducticns .ind hy availing ourselves of tlie advan- 

 thotights; those must and ougiit to be subject to j tages which God the uulhorornii goi.d has pur- 

 strict examination. There arc uiupiesliouabiy j poseiv given us, of our excellent y«i7/ j.riulege?, 

 some highly gifted minds, whose fust thoughts; we aiiempt to check the emigration ui'our citi- 

 Oi\ FAT Cattle, bulls and bull calves, lj.ggg^JJ^^^^'^^.ijij whise mode ol'expressiug them ;:cens lowanls other slates, vvliere their superior 

 WITH SOME PREFATORY REMARKS.^ extemporaneously is so happy, that no painful I so^'ucifi/ is deemed cuiriing, -.im] their superior 



The Committee of the Trustees ot this Soci-- (pgijo^rs are excited from the'liesiiation or con- 1 ioilustry is sometimes branded with the oppro- 

 ely appointed to make the arrangements o! our fusjon'^of tlie speaker. But it seems to me that brious name oi' avarice and vverreadung. 



No. 1. 



annual festival, desirous o{' economising the lime 

 of the public, proposed some material and im- 

 portant changes with this view. Among the rest, 

 they determined that it \vas inexpedient on the 

 first day of the Cattle Show to have (my cere- 

 monies or public address. These were I'ound to 

 consume so much time, (hat it was almost im- 

 possible for the Committees to perform their 

 duty with that ease and intelligence, which jus- 

 tice to the competitors seemed to require. No 

 time sufficient for the purpose was left for delib- 

 eration, and the [ucparatinn of the Reports. By 

 the suppression of the cereninnies and Address. 



the topics of agriculture and manufactures do not 

 afford scope lor any display of eloquence, and 

 that any effort to bestow ornament upon them is 

 much worse than lost. To speak fluently and. 

 persuasively on aiuj subject, we must be excited 

 in some decree above our initiind and ordinary tout: 

 offeeting.'^We can be so excited as to great mural 



It is, it appears tome, time that JNJew England 

 should take care of itself, instead of pernnllmo- 

 its territory to be depopulated by eniigration. It 

 is by the lair and active use of the proper means 

 to accnrnplish this mosf desirable end, that Nov? 

 England, if it shall perseveie in the present en- 

 ergy and ifileusity of its exertiot)s, will bear to 



and religious truths. We can. be so excited at the the other portions of tlie United ^i>talcs in tifly 

 bar, when the lives, tbrlunes, and reputa-j years, a proportion far greater than it has hith- 

 lion of our fellow men are at stake. We can. erto borne. 



they were enabled to make the trial of working i ^^j^^ ^^^ feelings to the 1 



feren! modes of culture of the soil? 



It seems to me impossible.— But if it were poi 

 sible to others, it is not to the individual, wh| 



cattle cm llie Jirsi day, which is a great conven 

 ience to competitors. It was hardly fair, and 

 certainly not humane, to suffer the animals which 

 had been employed in the Ploughing ■Match, to 

 proceed instantly to the trial of their strength 



and skill in drawing heavy weights, and in the j ^^^y ad.lresses you, who feels, that he nev 

 various movements necessary to form an opinion posse^^ej i|,;,t power, thai rare and olmcstsupc 

 of their powers and training. ! „„,„,.^,^ „u;^ sometimes dangerous in its exercis, 



Another benotit was contemplated by <lic j „,■ i„,^„p';;p:„„ ,|ie opinions of others by ort>w 

 change. The collection of such a concourse of j ii,^„„ijis^ rapldl} expressed in gloi^ing and kin 

 people, and such a concurrence of fine animals, " 



seemed to offer a fit occasion favourable to the 



scarcely fail to be so excited, when in Icgislati.ve 

 assemblies we are discussing tiie great inleresls 



of a state or nation: but how is it possible to; which have laiseif Great Britain to its present 

 owesl strain of elo- j high slate of productive industry. F cannot give 



It is pertinent in this view for i;s to consider 

 what ha\ e been the moral and political means, 



quence, when we are descanting upon the com'iyou a better nor a more condensed view of that 

 parative merits of various races of catUe, or dil| j stale (! niight almost call it a miraculous change) 



than by a very short notice introduced into the 



Edinglriirgh 0(>sc;;iec, and copied into that excel- 



I lent work, the American Farmer, edited by a man 



of strong powers of mind, Joini S. Skinner, Esq. 



" In seventy years the people of Great Britaia 



j have advanced full eight millions in number. — 



Fifty years ago the very existence of canals was 



matter of incredulity, (recollect lliat this was so 



late as the compieiicement of the war wiih her 



I colonics here and lliat she has been engaged in 



lins language. 



The great object of tills, and of all tlie olhel .. ^. 



selhBT and purchaser, for a Fair or auction ol ' ,,|f,^„gj j„„,j,„g,..;i,le p(,cip,jj,5 ,lii-oughout Europe! 30 years of expensive warlV.re .since thai peri- 



_ ,.1. ._.i „.- _,. l: .,,..1 ,•_ ...... ^^^^^1 America (and their inlluence^now extendslod) sixty-six millions of dollars have since been 



to nearly 100 millions of people) is to encour-ex[iendcd on canals, &. at least halt' as ir.uch more 

 age improvements in ngricullnre, and Hie me- ^re now dcvo'ted to new untinished projects of 

 chanick arts closely conueclid with it, jiarlicu- , 'hiK tlescription. Fifty years since there was 

 larlv domestick productions in private families scai^cly a steam engine in the country — there 

 — not that we feel indifferent to the success of , Cii'>n't be now less than 12000— a creation of 

 those extensive and splendid >2/ii; .s/oc/^ compan-! l'0«eV at least eqiral to the labour of 250,000 

 ies, which by underseilmg the productions of horse^ an energy which in a single day would 



cattle and of other objects presented for show 

 Hitherto this sale being on the second day, not 

 only obliged the owners of animals, and of goods 

 intefided lo be sold, to remain at great expense 

 to await (he auction, but as tlie collection of per- 

 sons who aijglil be purchasers was luiich smaller 

 on the second day than on the first, much, if not 

 the greater part of the brnetiis prolTered by this 

 fair were lost. The aniuials and the goods were 

 fit was feared) often sacriticed, and thus one of 

 the objccls contemplated wus in a great degree 

 j'ruslratoil. 



We hope that the change wil! [irove benefi- 

 cial, tliough it can only be tested by experiment. 



In confotuiily ivilli the saine views of econo- 



oreign countries open a wide field for the en- I'^^'e ii'-^cted the greatest pyramid of Egypt, 

 conrifgement of our industry, yet our pccw/iar j i'ereto^e the aslcnishment of mankind. — Fil'ly 

 piovir^ce is lo encourage the promotion of im- ' .vcars si(jice llie expott of manulactured cotton 

 proved modes of culture, lo einible these old and j '!''' f>ol amonnt lo a million of dollars, it has now 

 highly populous stales to retain their excellent, j swollen \o \iv:; millions of dollars. In the same 

 well educated population at /to/«f, rather than [ I'fi'iod 'f^e exported manufactures of woolen 

 to force Ihein abroad lo acquire a precarious j .?""'iS '" doliance of Saxon, Prussian, Spanish, 



misiug time, the Conunitlee proposed that 'heijypp,^p( |„ ^gjy countries, at the sacrifice oil "'"' -^'"''''''^•'" '"""iP'''i''^" ''''^'^ "''>'>nced more 

 reading of the Reports of these vera! Committees I |,(.;,ii|, ^nd in some cases of subsistence. Such i ''"'" ^'ight n:il lions of dollars. — Fifty yeais since 

 should be dispensed with, and they publicly an- K^.^, jj^g legitimate, wise, and reasonalde objects!'''^ imports into Englam! of new silk were only 



nouaced that the lisl of premiums only should be j „,■ .,|| q,,,. ngricultural associations in New Eng- 

 read, and the whole proceedings shouhl be clos- ^ |.,„,i ^y^ |„o,v very well from the example of 

 cd by an c.Kii-«i/)on;;ico;j4- address fiom the Pi'esi- i (;^g,,( jirji;,!,,^ Uvat New England alont is capa j 

 dent. To this last suggestion I have always felt : l,|,, of sustaining a population of IG mi.lions in- j 

 an invincible repugnance. It is Irne that on most I g,p.,,i „f („.o. W'e are convinced, thai by re- 1 

 of the jueccding anniversaries of the Brighton i,.|i„i,,„ at home, much more and grealjr per- 

 Show I have made some cursory aiu! unprepar- , .;o„.,| comfort will be secured to the imividuall 

 cd remarks, but I have since thought that lhe|_„)„c|, o-pcater opportunities alTordeil for liter- 1 



"oO,000 pounds in weight, they are now nearly 

 30 millions. — Fifty years since tliey exfiorlcd 

 only four million'^ of yards of linen goods, they 

 novv expoit forty millions. — Fil'ly years since 

 their whole exports were only Oii millions of 

 dollars, th<'y are now 2Q'2 millions." 



Our ow n hi>tory w ould show perhaps as great 



and honourable a change, but it Is still vastly in- 



practice ought to be discontiuntd. If any re- 1 ^py^ moral and religious instruction. It i; there-!/"''-"" '" ""^"'^i '" propoilinn lo our comparative 



marks which an individual should or could sug- 

 gest on such ■>) public occasion, in which we are 

 honoured by the attendance of farmers, manufac- 

 turers and 01 her citizens, from all parts of the 

 State, Mu^i be worthy of their altei'ition, it sure- 

 ly would be more respectful as well as nidre use- 

 ful, lo devote some tittle previous tiioiighl. to make 

 them so. I agree thiit they sliould not be elab- 

 orate, — that they should he familiar, simple, 

 easy, natural. They should partake uf the char- 

 acter of oral or e.'itemjioranecus comntuLlcations. 



fore our first duly by all the means in on- pow 

 er to render our section of Ihe country a ilesire- 

 able place of residence to our population. No- 

 body has a right to (jnnrrel with us for attjjnpt- 

 iiig lo make that population happy and pru'.per- 

 ous, and for affording them inducements to. May 

 at home. When ue cmigrulc, ihey someliij«s 



population. Oar exports of domesiick produc- 

 tions not exceeding oo millions and theirs being 

 '^22 millions; ours iieing to theirs only as |; 

 while our population is to theirs as 11 lo 10 or ?.. 

 It is important to us, and to all nations, lo 

 know from what cause, this rapid increase of 

 British iniluslry has been derived : no doubt from 

 superior c.ipital in \hc fust place ; from the em- 



huigh at US for our sharpness, and shrewdness, 



the nece^sary result of our superior modas o'.J P'^yren' "'" tbe lights of science in the second, 

 early education. Surely ihey who so comphiin, ''"' iimotig the other causes, must be reckoned 

 will find no fuull, if by improving our farm.', by' »« »o' unimportant the encouragement given to 



